I disagree. I recently re-watched Steins;Gate and I enjoyed even the start. When we got to the part where you say "stuff starts happening", I did get considerably more excited but the way you say it makes it seem that the start was not good.

For Steins;Gate the first episode is actually super intriguing. There's the possible pitfall of being too confusing, but the right mindset to have is one of expectation that it will be explained/resolved, not one of having to instantly know everything. After that though, people may lose interest as things progress very slowly and episodes focus on the characters. If you like SoL type stuff then it's not a problem, but if you're wanting dramatic tension and action you'll have to wait a while more.

If you want to watch One Piece there's a project called One Pace that combines several episodes to cancel out the horrible pacing the show has. Also you can always look at the wiki to skip filler arcs.

One Piece is probably the best one out of the 3, whereby it really just starts at episode 600 or smth and seriously.. noone got fucking time to watch the first 600 episodes to get to the real interesting stuff.

They just arent good enough to justify the amount of time needed to watch it. Imo most are Better off watching hxh, or even fairy tail (my not-so-guilty pleasure). Or an even better idea if you really like any of these long running shows, just read the manga.

One Piece is a phenomenal story but the anime can be hit or miss. It definitely doesn't take 600 episodes to get interesting. If you're into shouen, it gets fun pretty fast and has yet to stop getting better. Seriously, every arc feels bigger and better than the last.

"Ok, time to watch a new show!"Skims PTW list"Hmm I've heard amazing things about Hunter x Hunter and FMA: Brotherhood."Continues skimming PTW list"Maybe I should start Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Monster finally."Notices 6 episode OVA on PTW"SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN WE HAVE A WINNER"

People say "Watch X anime because it's the best thing ever" without listing any real reason on why I should watch it

For example, I ended watching a K-On because I kept hearing it's good... for me it was the shitiest anime I've ever watched, I'm not kidding, Guilty Crown and Sword Art Online are 10/10 animes compared to K-On IMO, and if you watch my coments on SAO and GC on /r/anime you would think those animes gave me cancer, turns out K-On is basically something that's not for me and I found every single second watching K-On a huge waste of time

He is right though. In my opinion HxH has very interesting characters and covers A LOT of aspects most people that want to watch a good shounen. It can be incredibely funny and filled with great action/fighting scenes while maintaining a great serious atmosphere that gets very emotional and sad. While some people only criticise the Music/Animation I enjoyed both of them and think they were executed perfectly fitting for the series.

I really recommend you to take your time and enjoy as much of HxH as you possibly can. It started out as a interesting and pretty happy storyline so I just felt comfortable watching it but going deeper and deeper into the HxH universe you will almost surely find yourself addicted too :) Sorry for any mistakes, not my native tongue and im a bit sleepy but felt like telling you.

HxH is what you get when you take a shounen battle anime, then slowly strip away all the annoying shounen tropes, and replace them with excellent writing and a world where not everything is black and white and actions have real consequences. So sometimes really shitty things happen and not everyone always gets a happy ending.

I just tend to completely catch up on a show that is still going or will just finish an entire series thats already ended before starting another. Then I have to choose between watching something entirely new or re-watchimg an anime I saw as a kid, such as rurouni kenshin (plan on watching soon since I saw that they made live action versions). After that will come something like hunter x hunter or steins gate probably.

Is that considered long? I wished the original was longer. Im a bit of a novice anime watcher, but I started watching one piece a couple months ago to get back into it and am now almost caught up to the most recent episodes. Idk but I love a good story that lasts a while and continuously gets better. But to each their own :)

Yeah if One Piece is your standard of comparison, FMA:B is super short. But the by far most common lengths are 11-13 episodes and 24-26 episodes.

It's certainly true that the longer you stick with a show, the more emotionally invested you are. But there's also the risk of the show being bogged down in filler that certainly doesn't progress the plot, and may not add anything as far as personality either. There's also a greater chance the show makes bad decisions as it goes on. Decisions that may ruin its quality and/or it's popularity. So it's no coincident that some of the most adored shows with the most people clamoring for sequels, are the ones with few episodes.

I don't often like shounen these days, but FMA:B is pretty decent. If you've only watched the first episode, I'd recommend watching more if you have any interest at all.

I'd say that the first episode is basically a boring introduction, and it gets better pretty quickly. Also, the two main characters (Ed and Al) are the worst characters in my opinion. The side characters are all pretty damn good, and they carry the show.

I dropped it. The boke tsukkomi thing with Edwards height just irritated me to a point where i didn't want to watch anymore. I stopped pretty early (they were just done with that desert town I've forgotten the name of).

I watched the 2003 anime back in the day and enjoyed it, but I guess my tastes have changed since then.

You have to be in the right mood for Spice and Wolf as it's slow paced and heavy in dialogue. S&W is all about enjoying the character interactions. If you're prepared for what you're getting into then it becomes a real treat.

I've recently started watching Madoka Magica and Toradora though, so that at least knocks two off my list.

Edit: just to clarify, I do plan to watch all of these. I just don't have a ton of spare time between school and work now that college is back in session. I know they're all worth watching and they'er all good shows/movies, but like I said, time is an issue.

I just started 6 months ago and have been going strong trying to catch up. I've gotten through most on your list there, them being the popular ones.

I'm commenting to say that, if you like sci-fi and mystery or cop shows, bump psycho-pass to the top as S2 is about to come out and I find that I get even more enjoyment out of a show watching it air live with the rest of the community.

Yea movies are so easy to prioritize in lists like these. My mal always has new movies cycling in and our of the "to watch section" because they're just so easy to watch. You just set aside a 2ish hour window and you're done.

I probably should've put the maybe in bold and italics, ahah. It was more of a "extremely unlikely that I'll watch it but it's not 0%, so maybe someday when I have a few hundred more anime under my belt", while Naruto and Bleach are completely ruled out.

Yeah, that's pretty much my stance from what I hear / bits of what I've seen. I'd rather watch 25-50 good to amazing series than 1 long "ehh" / decent shounen battler series with pacing issues and lots of filler.

Just so you know, there's a project called One Pace that tightens up the story of One Piece through massive editting. It leavea all the jokes and development in but skips repetitive, in the last episode blah blah, in episode filler and random non relevant moments.

I highly recommend it simply because when tightly paced, OP is hilarious, touching and more than anything very well written world building. I'll throw im the caveat that of OP had been a Seinen story instead of Shounen, I think the mangaka might have created something truly legendary.

Watch One Piece and watch is subbed. I liked the dub except for luffy's voice(he grew on me), but when I got to the place where the dub caught up I switched to the sub and couldn't even differentiate their voices for like 10 episodes..

As for the enemy characters in the beginning of one piece...if you are like me, you might be turned off by weird looking characters like that. you will get over that soon enough, trust me, and they don't all look like that. I skipped the filler as well.

Now this might sound dumb but... It's those eyes, man. They're unsettling. Every time one of those... Things looks at the viewer all I can say is just "O-Oh god". It's like something out of the Twilight Zone.

I did exactly the same thing. Watched the first 5, dropped it in a heartbeat because god the characters were annoying as hell. However, I suggest you go back to it. Episode 8-13 have far less annoying Shinji and more cool robot battles (with some interesting mysteries being brought up) and 14-24 are some of the best episodes of anime I've ever seen. 25 and 26 are garbage though, so just watch the End of Evangelion film. It really is a series you have to push through in the beginning, but it does get much better.

FMA: Brotherhood (I've seen most of the original series so I'll get around to it)

Code Geass (I'm actually planning on watching this soon)

Death Note (Same as Code Geass but it's not as high of a priority)

Clannad (I'm not the biggest fan of the art style, but I'll try to get around to it)

Hunter X Hunter (Not the biggest fan of long series, but maybe I'll get around to it)

Gintama (Same as above, but since it seems pretty good, I'll probably end up watching it little by little)

Evangelion series (I'm not the biggest mecha fan - which is funny cause Gurren Lagann is one of my favorite animes - but I will probably end up watching this when my friends come back from college so we can marathon it)

It's really hard for me to watch something that concludes that 'heavily'.

Like all this awesome build-up and character development that leads to an unexpected conclusion. But in those two cases, I know the unexpected conclusion... especially for Angel Beats, less so for Toradora, that shit was shipping since episode 1.

It seems like that's the general consensus. And to be perfectly honest, I didn't care for Index. I wouldn't say that it was terrible or anything, it just failed to interest me. Railgun seems like it will be more suited to my tastes though, even if it's just because there will be more electric-based superpowers. I might start watching it after I watch the last Kara no Kyoukai movie.

I have heard that the anime ended differently than the manga, but thankfully I rarely read manga anyways, so I probably won't care. Unless it's bad overall, not just compared to the manga, but I guess I'll just have to wait and find out.

From the gifs I've seen of Gintama, it looks like the humor is my cup of tea. But when I actually started it was really boring. I heard it gets better after the first 20 something episodes but I'm not sure I can muster the willpower to sit through what is essentially 2 cour before something good happens.

Plus it's just so goddamn long. The longest I've been able to marathon was LoGH.

I sort of bypassed the whole shounen phase, and so I haven't seen any of Naruto, Bleach, Hunter x Hunter etc. I might start Hunter x Hunter later because it gets a lot of praise, but I just don't have the time right now.

I haven't watched Spice and Wolf or any of the Monogatari series, but I'm planning to start watchiing them very soon.

I haven't seen many popular shows, such as No Game No Life or Log Horizon. In fact, the only recent popular shows I've seen are Attack on Titan and Kill la Kill. I also haven't seen any moe/slice of life shows, because they're just not my thing.

Also some movies: Ghost in the Shell, anything by Satoshi Kon, and most Ghibli films. (I've seen Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Grave of the Fireflies.)

I know so many people that just jumped on this hype train that have never ever watched or knew of anime. Then, after they finished, they exclaimed how awesome all anime is and never watched another series. I'm just the kind of person who hates band wagons so I'm probably not going to watch this until early next year when everybody forgets about it.

As someone who is also not into sports, watch Hajime no Ippo. It's awesome, and you can actually just ignore a lot of the sportiness while still getting a lot out of it if it starts to get to you.

Honestly the easiest parallels that I could draw to a non sports anime are all Gurren Lagann, so you can watch that (hint hint) to get a feel for how the fights and story both grow in some respects and stay the same in different respects as the series progresses.

Gintama is very episodic: not a show that you really need to watch episodes in order or commit yourself (aside from short arcs that are 4-5 episodes long). You can easily get a few laughs by watching a random episode whenever you feel like it.

To maximize enjoyment, watch the episodes that establish characters first, then enjoy the rest at your leisure.

There's a reason why there are 3 Gintama entries in the top 10 rated anime on MAL. If you're into comedy, it's a show you definitely don't want to miss out on.

Code Geass R2. I was very entertained with the first season, but I just never got around to the second.

Nichijou. Eventually.

Ghost in the Shell. Saw a few snippets of Stand Alone Complex on Adult Swim here and there. Maybe some day.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Everyone hypes it up too much. I actually don't feel like seeking something out when people gush over it. I'll watch it, I just have to clear this backlog of three dozen unremarkable shows first.

Whatevermonogatari. I don't really know anything about this series of shows. What little seeps through the cracks of my ignorance tends to weird me out. The fans weird me out just a bit more.

K-On! This is not my type of show. I had a nice time with Yuyushiki, my friends occasionally spring an episode of Hidamari Sketch on me, but that's about it when it comes to slice of life. I doubt I'll ever watch it.

Some of the bigger titles on my list were picked up purely by chance. "Ehhh, I've been looking for something to watch. Too lazy to actually pick something out, guess I'll go with the first item on Crunchyroll's front page that isn't 300+ episodes. Attack on Titan / Kill la Kill, eh?"

Feel free to browse my anime list and shout at me for things I haven't watched. It's fun for the whole family, and there are so many other categories, too! American TV, music, film, gosh-darned food as well! Did you know a Big Mac has three buns? Because I didn't.

Nothing from the current season ever, because I would rather wait 13 weeks and enjoy the show in bulk versus waiting every week for a new episode while trying to keep interest. I do have Jinsei on my list for this season though.

Things I haven't watched because I'm not interested: pretty much everything from Shounen Jump or Key, and any mecha or harem show. Plus Monogatari, Steins;Gate, Kill la Kill, Attack on Titan, Sword Art Onine, No Game No Life, and Fate/Zero. Which is to say: almost everything this sub likes.

Things I just haven't watched but probably will eventually? Uh, Haruhi. Maybe Code Geass, but I doubt it.

Not sure if it'd be considered popular, but it's been talked about quite a bit on this sub. Steins;Gate. I've been wanting to watch it after hearing about how good it is, but I just can't bring myself to start watching it. Starting a new anime is always a pain for me. Once I start though, I don't stop. The first episode of an anime is always like a barrier for me.

I started by watching as many "big ones" as I could and after much watching I'm still not that close to finished. Based off the sub reddits version of popular I'd say spice and wolf is a big one that I'll get around too eventually, and I'm just getting into the whole fate series so I suppose fate/zero will be taken care of soon.

I've been spoiled as well but that didn't stop me from crying my eyes out. And contrary to popular belief, you won't be depressed as much in the ending.. its more like a great feeling of accomplishment for all the pain you've been through.

And its safe to assume that whatever "part" that spoil you, isn't even the most emotional part of the series. The most emotional parts are the ones difficult to spoil, in a way that even if someone says it to you, you wouldn't understand it without context but then cry buckets if you finally watched it.

The hype of No Game No Life really gets me. I've seen some scenes from YouTube my friends post, and I don't think it looks bad, but honestly it doesn't look as good as people claim it to be. I'm sure it's funny and entertaining, if it gets a big fanbase, no matter how disinterested i am in it, the studio must be doing something right, right?

As for Steins Gate... I'm told the first half is slow and then shit escalates and time flys by, but never got around it.